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IT’S SET TO be an unsettled weekend ahead, with wind and heavy rain expected to hit the country on Saturday.
A Status Yellow wind warning for Wexford, Cork, Kerry and Waterford kicked in at 4pm yesterday and is expected to remain in place until 2pm today.
Met Éireann said southeasterly winds will reach mean speeds between of 50 and 65km/h at times, with gusts between of 90 and 100 km/h. Winds will be strongest along coastal areas.
A Status Yellow rain warning for Cork, Kerry and Waterford also kicked in at 6pm yesterday and is expected to last 24 hours.
Heavy rain is expected to lead up to accumulations of between 25mm and 50mm and spot flooding is possible. There may be higher accumulations of rain in mountainous areas.
Looking at today in general, it will be mostly cloudy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle, persistent in southern and southeastern coastal counties where there will be a risk of spot flooding.
Afternoon temperatures will range between 5 to 7 degrees generally and 8 to 11 degrees in the southwest.
Tomorrow is expected to be generally dry and cloudy for much of the morning. However, rain along the Atlantic coast will spread across the country in the afternoon and evening.
Highest temperatures will range between 6 and 8 degrees.
Further outbreaks of rain are forecast throughout tomorrow night, with heavier rain spreading into the southwest towards dawn.
Saturday is due to be a wet and windy day with heavy rain throughout much of the country.
Speaking on RTÉ Radio One’s Morning Ireland, Met Éireann forecaster John Eagleton said that Saturday’s weather would be “horrible”.
Strong winds are forecast to develop from a southeast direction during the morning and then a westerly direction in the afternoon.
Met Éireann says these westerly winds may reach storm force across northern areas of the country in the evening.
Sunday is forecast to be a much brighter and drier day with some showers across Atlantic coastal counties, but it will be mostly dry along the eastern side of the country.
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Is this weather not expected in December? More scaremongering from the meteorologists department. Are we not an island on the edge of Europe facing into the Atlantic ?
@Anthony Healy: The called it horrible, which it is at the moment. Scaremongering would be calling it an evil psychotic hurricane. This is just the thejournal doing good investigative journalism and tuning into Morning Ireland’s weather report.
@Anthony Healy: calm down ya lunatic. It’s the weather, saw people out wearing t-shirts last Sunday, nice to give a heads up that it’s not going to be as nice this weekend.
@Anthony Healy: Send a strongly worded letter to Joooooooooooooe Duffy (and don’t forget the obligatory splash of Old Spice on the envelope).
That should bring the temperature up a few degrees.
@tommytukamomo:
@tommytukamomo:
@Anthony Healy: They forgot the “Big Spiders coming into your house” article this year.
@Football in the Groin: It’s called ‘commenting on the article’. Just FYI.
@Anthony Healy: Padding between the adds.
I have been through the artic;e thoroughly , twice – and not a mention of Dublin anywhere, not one word…
Well played Journal, Well played…It`s about time the rest were thrown a few scraps, and it`s nice to be nice around Christmas.
Happy Christmas Culchies!!
From all in Dublin
XX
@Pixie McMullen: Go way you with your Dublin.I lived in Dublin for 6 years and it’s a kip.You people think you are the centre of the the universe. Your the culchies not us. Keep your long traffic delays and your city violence.I would let my dog live there
Gerry Malone Dundalk
@Live at Oriel: Ha Ha – 10 minutes for my first triggered victim, I`m slowing up.
PS you can keep your dog up there, we don`t want him,
Pixie McMullen, The Capital
@Live at Oriel: Haha you are calling Dublin a kip and you live in Dundalk…..a depressing hellhole if ever there was one.
@Live at Oriel: Why did you stay for 6 years? No jobs there??? That’s why we’re the centre, cos everything is here. Plus I wouldn’t drive through dundalk it’s that much of a hole
@Peter Hughes: Even the dogs roam around in packs in Dundalk lol.
@Live at Oriel:
@Live at Oriel: calling Dublin a kip from Dundalk?……. mind you you are the first to name check your own kip of a town while calling Dublin a kip.you are to be commended for that.most are too embarrassed………..ps go back to live in Dundalk if it’s so great.
@John: Dublin is a hole tho. Must be said.
@Ian Kelleher: Dublin a hole?…..what, like the entire city, that’s a real generalization.parts are of course but lots are not. Most country people get off the train and walk to croke Park and think that’s it. Their loss.
So is the hose pipe ban still in effect???? I didn’t see anyone on tv canceling yet lol
@Patrick O Connell: you must have been asleep that day.
@shellakybooky: I’d say I was at work, 95% of adults work. When was it canceled???
@Patrick O Connell: They said we might not have water for the winter months so we needed to conserve water because it might not rain……comical lol
The weather is awful in Dundalk this morning .Gale force chilling easterly winds would go through you.I live right beside the sea and if there is any wind it’s usually much worse here .So much for global warming.Jesus we have the Green Party saying there is climate change and wanting us to pay big carbon taxes .And they expect us to install hugely expensive heating systems .Give us the money for new heating and fine .Its bloody freezing outside.Im burning plenty of fossil fuel this weekend just to keep warm.And to hell with the upper middle class greens who will probably sit in the cold all weekend .
Gerry Malone Dundalk
@Live at Oriel: weather not climate try looking up the difference
@Live at Oriel: You heard it here, folks. It’s winter and it’s a windy, cold day in Dundalk. Solid scientific evidence right there that Climate Change is a giant scam.
@Live at Oriel: hope your dog is warm.
@Live at Oriel: You call this cold, It was much colder decades snow and frost and drier Winters now much windier and wet – this is climate change in action.
@Live at Oriel: *sigh. So depressing
That’s a beautiful picture of Merrion Square despite the rain.
Was there something else? Weather in the north or something…
First dylan and young. and now wet wet wet.
DEFCON 3. Bolt the doors. Tie everything outside down. Put granny into hibernation. Buy every stick of bread for miles and it’ll all blow over by December 24th.
Click bait..
M50 will be in an awful heap later with this drop of rain, same old sh**e
Horrible weather not met eireann terminology ?
Always get the shite this time of the year hopefully we will have a normal spring and no snow
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